{"id":7724,"date":"2011-09-15T11:26:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T16:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=7724"},"modified":"2011-09-15T11:28:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T16:28:03","slug":"after-claiming-government-%e2%80%98doesn%e2%80%99t-create-any-jobs%e2%80%99-perry-brags-%e2%80%98i-helped-create-a-million-jobs%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/09\/15\/after-claiming-government-%e2%80%98doesn%e2%80%99t-create-any-jobs%e2%80%99-perry-brags-%e2%80%98i-helped-create-a-million-jobs%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"After Claiming Government \u2018Doesn\u2019t Create Any Jobs,\u2019 Perry Brags: \u2018I Helped Create A Million Jobs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article <a title=\"Think Progress article\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/09\/14\/319277\/after-claiming-government-doesnt-create-any-jobs-perry-brags-i-helped-create-a-million-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>After Claiming Government \u2018Doesn\u2019t Create Any Jobs,\u2019 Perry Brags: \u2018I Helped Create A Million Jobs\u2019<\/strong><\/a> points out that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perry\u2019s state does, however, lead the nation by having the highest percentage of minimum wage jobs. And when it comes to government jobs, Texas is in no short supply, as between 2007 and 2010, 47 percent of all government jobs were created in Texas. In fact, under Perry\u2019s watchful eye, government jobs grew twice as much as private sector jobs.<\/p>\n<p>But any way its sliced, Perry is now taking credit for creating jobs, when just a few months ago he thought he had no power to create jobs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why shouldn&#8217;t a politician claim to believe\u00a0 two opposite points of view?\u00a0 Each one may gain some votes that the other one won&#8217;t.\u00a0 Is that what they call smart politics in Texas?\u00a0 It worked for the Bush&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article After Claiming Government \u2018Doesn\u2019t Create Any Jobs,\u2019 Perry Brags: \u2018I Helped Create A Million Jobs\u2019 points out that: Perry\u2019s state does, however, lead the nation by having the highest percentage of minimum wage jobs. And when it comes to government jobs, Texas is in no short supply, as between 2007 and 2010, 47 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7726,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724\/revisions\/7726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}